Dohlantry v. Blue Mounds Fire & Lightning Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. This is an action upon a policy of insurance. Defendant is a town insurance company, organized on the mutual plan, pursuant to the statute.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. This is an action upon a policy of insurance. Defendant is a town insurance company, organized on the mutual plan, pursuant to the statute. On November 21, 1884, it issued its policy No. 919 to Mrs. John Dohlantry, insuring her against loss of, or damage by fire or lightning to, a dwelling house and its contents, in the sum of $525, and certain barns and a granary and their contents, and on certain stock, all on the same farm with such dwelling house, to the amount of $1,050,— in all, $1,575. The amount of insurance on each building, and each…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, C. J.
1. Counsel for plaintiffs maintained in their argument that the above by-law, sec. 12, is not violated unless the insured dwelling house is left entirely without inhabitants or goods ’ therein, while counsel on behalf of the company maintains that it was violated, and the policy rendered void, because no person dwelt in the house for thirty days and more before it was burned, although the *186usual furniture was allowed to remain therein. The arguments display great research, and numerous cases,and authorities are cited in support of these respective positions. We d.o not deem it necessary to…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Loomis v. Rockford InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1890
- Fitzgerald v. Connecticut Fire InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1885
3Cited by7 opinions
- Republic County Mutual Fire Insurance v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1904
- Hoover v. Mercantile Town Mutual InsuranceMissouri Court of Appeals · 1902
- Struebing v. American InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1929
- Ryan v. Rockford InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1893
- McKinney v. German Mutual Fire Insurance Society of LibertyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1895
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